Conference Program

7:30am - 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:30am

The BPM Investment: Defining the Process, the Involvement and the Specific Impact

John Lojek, Director, Solution Strategy, Appian Corp.

BPM can be defined simply as being able to define, model, execute, automate and manage existing business processes in a well coordinated, streamlined approach.  The next generation of BPM will focus on helping organizations with designing, creating and implementing cross-enterprise business processes within a hybrid environment of people, content and systems.

Whether your organization fits within the current BPM framework or the next generation framework it is essential that you are able to:

• Define the process

• Understand the full scope of involvement of people, content & systems

• Be able to justify the Business and IT reasons for BPM

• Be knowledgeable and realistic on the full potential of BPM to the organization and

          Business & IT Reasons for Justifying BPM

In this session attendees will learn how to evaluate where they are along the BPM readiness spectrum and how to get started.

9:30am - 10:00am - Refreshment and Exhibit Break

10:00am - 11:00am

How to Build a Process-Centric Organization
Marc Smith, Director, Technical Marketing, Lombardi Software

Before an enterprise proceeds with a Business Process Management initiative, the organization needs to map out a strategy to make sure everyone is on the same page so that the goals and needs of both business and IT are clearly understood.

In this session attendees will learn a strategy for building a business-process centric organization that includes an understanding of:
 

• Process Integration and Architecture

• Organizational and Cultural Aspects: How to Empower People

• Frameworks and Methods that will be used

• Process Modeling

• Business Process Analysis

• Business Process Standards

• Human Facing Applications

• Business Rules

11:00am - 12:00pm
On the Same Page: How to Align Business & IT Through BPM Planning

Marty Kurzinski, Director of Strategic Solutions, LANDesk

Business Process Management is a new way in thinking where organizations shift to process-centric thinking and lessen their dependence on the traditional corporate functional structures.  BPM is also a management discipline enabled by IT that helps businesses more effectively manage and run their operational processes.

For BPM to be effective, Business and IT must have solid understanding of the overall process and of each other.

In this session, attendees will learn what BPM means:

* from a business/management perspective

* from an IT perspective

* to IT and business leaders working together

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Luncheon

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Leading the Charge: How IT Can Drive Process Improvement Throughout the Organization
Tom Coleman, Chief Information and Process Officer, Sloan Valve Company

IT can be very effective at driving process improvement throughout the organization.  To be successful in this area IT must prove that it truly understands process, has credibility to take on this initiative and show that its efforts at Business Process Management will yield huge gains in productivity for the enterprise.

In this session, a leading CIO will demonstrate how he has implemented process, the challenges his team has worked through, the pitfalls to be avoided and the ultimate gains made by the extended enterprise.

2:00pm - 2:30pm - Refreshment and Exhibit Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Implementing Metrics to Achieve BPM & ROI
Rocco Petitto III, Senior QA Architect, Compuware
 

The success of BPM lies in being able to quantify and qualify the results achieved.  In this session, attendees will learn how the IT and business units of a large software company have effectively implemented metrics to improve the quality of their own processes as well as aligned them to organizational goals.

* How to design metrics that measure the effectiveness of process improvements

* How to link process performance to organizational goals

* How to provide the right information for assisting executive decision-making

* How to use metrics for continuous improvement

3:30pm - 4:30pm

A View from the Business

Mark Mahre, Vice President, Consulting, Optimus Solutions

“In a highly competitive business, the First Step is process and is considered the most important – establishing better leverage and creating separation.  If executed correctly, the advantage becomes a major differentiator against a stronger competitor.  This is perhaps the most important factor strategically for a business unit to win market share.”

Key takeaways from this session include include:
* How to develop a Customized Solution that will drive Business Process, not the other way around
* Clear Understanding of the Business Requirements and Alignment with Line of Business Owners Investment Goals
* Accessibility from Line of Business Ownership creating Value Added and Repeatable Solutions
* Process Framework must be kept Simple and be Easy to Use & Deploy  

 

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference, you will learn the following:

• How to get started with BPM
   
• How to build a process-centric organization
   
• Implementing metrics to achieve BPM & ROI
   
• Implementing Frameworks & Methods
   
• Understanding Future Trends
   
• Avoiding Pitfalls of BPM Project Planning
   
• How to Align Business & IT Through BPM Planning
   
• Business Process Modeling
   
• The Interplay between Change Management & BPM
   
• Business & IT Reasons for Justifying BPM
   
• Process integration and architecture
   
• BPM Aspects to Understand: Organizational and Cultural
   
• Simulating BPM to Achieve Optimization

Conference Price: $179.00 per person